Otter allows budget bill that includes 66.2% cut in state funds
That’s partly because of the removal from Admin of the Idaho Education Network, after a court invalidated the state’s $60 million contract for the school broadband network that was issued to two politically connected firms.
Lawmakers this year decided instead to have the state Department of Education oversee school broadband; it coordinated a process in which individual school districts contracted with vendors of their choice – a process that resulted in significant savings and more bandwidth for the schools. Betsy Russell, EOB
